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Hence ebonics was seen by the American public at large as a declaration of independence in need of quashing, an internal threat, a wild mistake, while American English, itself a partly revolutionary, postcolonial product, is seen as simply "the way things are" (that is, unless you're Prince Charles).
The next time Quayle makes a mistake, the voter thinks to himself, "There goes that Quayle again.
(This is not the only simple mistake leading to a big one in the news today: the papers all cover NASA's admission that the reason the Mars Orbiter was lost last week was that some engineers did calculations for the mission using pounds and feet, while others used the metric system.)
That was a mistake of short-term thinking, though it was an understandable one.
Wrong stitching can be pulled out and a seam redone in the sewing room, but a big mistake by a cutter can involve the loss of many yards of cloth—and cloth costs range from one or two dollars a yard for inexpensive fabrics to three hundred dollars for some cashmeres.